{"id":8567,"date":"2023-12-20T14:22:01","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T14:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=8567"},"modified":"2023-12-20T14:22:01","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T14:22:01","slug":"ilo-at-least-66-of-jobs-lost-in-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/20\/ilo-at-least-66-of-jobs-lost-in-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"ILO: At Least 66 % of Jobs Lost in Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sudan Events \u2013 Sumaya Sayed<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At least 66 % of jobs have been lost in Gaza since the Israel-Hamas conflict erupted in October, the International Labour (ILO) said on Wednesday, warning that employment losses could continue to increase in the enclave.<br \/>\nThe losses amount to a total of 192,000 jobs in the small Palestinian territory, the ILO said in its second assessment of the impact of Israeli ground and air strikes on Gaza which began after a deadly cross-border incursion by Hamas gunmen on October 7.<br \/>\nIn a first assessment released in early November, ILO estimated that 182,000 jobs had been lost in Gaza, a figure representing more than 60 percent of employment.<br \/>\n\u201cToday hardly anybody in Gaza is able to earn income from work,\u201d said Peter Rademaker, ILO deputy regional director for the Arab states.<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s clearly a still growing curve,\u201d he said of employment loss. \u201cIt might even get worse.\u201d<br \/>\nJobs are also being lost on a large scale in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, where the United Nations has recorded an uptick in violence against Palestinians since the outbreak of the conflict.<br \/>\nILO estimated that around 32 % of employment has been lost since October 7, equivalent to 276,000 jobs.<br \/>\nEven before the war and the tightening of Israel\u2019s economic blockade of the Gaza Strip, around half of the narrow coastal enclave\u2019s 2.3 million people lived below the poverty line<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events \u2013 Sumaya Sayed At least 66 % of jobs have been lost in Gaza since the Israel-Hamas conflict erupted in October, the International Labour (ILO) said on Wednesday, warning that employment losses could continue to increase in the enclave. The losses amount to a total of 192,000 jobs in the small Palestinian territory, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8569,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8567\/revisions\/8569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}